Lindy 70548 User Manual

RAID SATA II – 3Gbps

4 Ports PCI-X Host

User Manual

English

LINDY No. 70548 (External)

LINDY No. 70549 (Internal)

www.LINDY.com

© LINDY ELECTRONICS LIMITED & LINDY-ELEKTRONIK GMBH - FIRST EDITION (November 2004)

1. Introduction

This RAID SATA II –3Gbps 4Ports PCI-X Host Adapter is a PCI to 4Ports Serial ATA host

controller board. It provides a 64bit, 133 MHz PCI interface on the host side and four,

fully compliant Serial ATA II – 3Gbps ports on the device side to access SATA Hard disk

drive.

The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 4Ports Serial

ATA II – 3Gbps Channels and support RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 features. It

accepts host commands through the PCI bus, processes them and transfers data

between the host and Serial ATA devices. The board should be connected to SATA

target device and will take the data, serialize it and output it for transmission over

the SATA interface. The board can control four independent Serial ATA channels. Each

channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will support one Serial ATA device.

The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 & Generation 2 transfer rate of 1.5 Gbps /

3Gbps. It comes completely with drivers for Windows 2003, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000

and XP.

RAID, Redundant Array of Independent Disks, greatly enhances two main areas of data

storage: performance and data integrity. By using RAID 0, also known as Striping,

performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously

writing data to 2, 3 or 4 drives. The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1,

Mirroring, writes identical data on two drives or sets of drives, thus protecting the data from

a disk failure. If, for any reason, one drive were to fail, your data is secure and available

from the mirrored second drive.

1.1. Features

1.1.1. PCI Interface

Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2.

Integrated PCI DMA engines.

64 bit, 133MHz fully compliant PCI host interface.

1.1.2. High Speed Serial ATA Interface

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Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation &

2nd generation Serial ATA data rates 1.5Gbps/ 3Gbps.

Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data

transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives.

Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing

identical data on 2 drives.

RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Stripping) combine both Striping and Mirroring technologies to

provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data

availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring.

Fully compliant with Serial ATA specifications.

Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver.

1.1.3. The Individual features for different HBA Models

1.1.3.1. Model A: Serial ATA II – 3Gbps RAID Internal 4 Ports

Supports Independent four Internal Ports

Special Shield and durable SATA connectors on each Internal Port

1.1.3.2. Model B: Serial ATA II – 3Gbps RAID External 4 Ports

Supports Independent four External Ports

Special SATA II connectors on External Port to support Mobile HDD, Mobile

CD-ROM, Mobile DVD and Mobile CD-RW

1.2. Package Contents

RAID SATA II – 3Gbps 4Ports PCI Host Adapter

This Users Manual

Driver CD

2. What Is RAID

RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAID technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I/O performance and provide

redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member, without loss of

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